KLove averaged 25 minutes a game last year, with 8.5 FGA per game. If he plays 36 minutes a game this year, he would take 3.5 more shots per game, assuming the presence of Jonny Flynn doesn’t change anything (like give him more looks).

Just a slight jump. I see him improving on something in his game every single year. He’s just so damn smart and skilled not to. His (explosive, not strength-based) physical upside is pretty limited, but he’ll still be a very good starter in this league for quite a while. If he can improve his post scoring at all and keep extending his range to past the 3pt line, then I can see him approaching 20 someday.

I’d be more interested to see his other stats improve. His worth isn’t greatest as a scorer anyway. His 3-pointers, considering his skill and strength, would be nice to see jump. I’d like to see his assists rise, considering he’s known for his passing and that’s one of his greatest assets aside from rebounding for this team. Rebounding improvements would just be icing, considering he’s so absurdly good at it already. Any defensive stats improving noticeably would be great, and to see marked improvement in his efficiency and advanced statistics would be the most encouraging.

Although in refuting an argument against Love, you may have opened up a new one. With as active as he is on the offensive glass, perhaps he should be on more of these charts. For someone who had to work to improve his scoring efficiency as the season went on, getting more of these easy shots would be the next logical step.*

*Though I suppose he’d be near the top of percentage of offense from fouls drawn at or near the basket. If such a statistic even existed.

it seems like people who take a lot of shots have a harder time getting on there, unless they both focus on a few types of shots and don’t do a whole lot of others. Most telling is that Dwight Howard, who probably was among the leaders in all these types of shots as totals, was only among the top twenty percentagewise in one of them. So yeah, disregard that stuff I said earlier.

You are going to incite a riot with Blazer blogheads. I may have to avoid this website for a week….

I had to delete the thread with the bad link. Too many crashed browsers.

Who says LMA is the second coming? Most Blazer fans agree that he’s a nice young player who always makes the team better by being on the floor. We’re not saying that he’s a star player.

His rebounding is mediocre and his scoring efficiency is low… however, the TS% is somewhat “artificially” deflated. McMillan’s high/low zone offense is predicated upon the 20-foot pick-n-pop to spread the floor. The 20-foot jumper is an extremely inefficient shot in a vacuum, leading to poor statistics for LaMarcus. The offense as a whole, though, is very efficient. LMA deserves some credit for this.

In short, he’s a good player who helps his team. A solid third option on a title team. No more, no less.

To echo an earlier sentiment, why do we have to favor one side of this “debate?” They can both be highly successful players independently of each other… one doesn’t have to suck to validate the other.